Thucydides Articles

Tyranny for the Commons Man

Barry Schwartz | Jun 23, 2009

Six billion people are now sharing one planet, one water supply and limited energy resources with a grab-first-ask-questions-later mentality. But there is hope. New insights into human psychology can help manage everything from environmental negot

What Hobbes Really Said

Noel Malcolm | Sep 01, 2005

Life in the state of nature may be "nasty, brutish and short," but states are not people, and Hobbes is not the ultra-realist he is made out to be.

Achieving Oil Security: A Practical Proposal

Martin Feldstein | Nov 01, 2001

The key to U.S. energy security does not lie ultimately in the Middle East. Cutting domestic demand is critical to near-term American success--and it can be done without raising taxes.

Responses to Fukuyama

| Jun 01, 1999

Harvey Mansfield, E.O. Wilson, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Robin Fox, Robert J. Samuelson and Joseph S. Nye

Quantum Leap

Patrick Glynn | Mar 01, 1995

The new world of foreign policy is neither a unipolar world nor a multipolar world, but an integrated global system, in which the United States plays a central, but constantly tempered, role.

The Philosophy of 'Europe'

John Laughland | Mar 01, 1995

If the myth of destabilizing European nationalism continues to cast its spell over the decisions of Europe's political architects, then it will prove to be a self-fulfilling fantasy.

A Tired Anarchy

Charles H. Fairbanks | Mar 01, 1995

Russia, for our officials and foreign policy leaders, is an increasingly scary and strange place. We don't seem to know where we are or what we are doing.

An Old Age is Out, Review of Pierre PÅ½an's Une jeunesse franÂaise, FranÂois Mitterrand: 1934-1947

| Mar 01, 1995

An Old Age is Out, Review of Pierre PŽan's Une jeunessefranaise, Franois Mitterrand: 1934-1947 (Paris: Fayard, 1994);Emmanuel Faux's Thomas LeGrand, and Gilles Perez, La main droite deDieu, (Paris: ƒditions du Seuil, 1994); Edwy Plenel's Un temps dec

Realism and Its Rivals

Owen Harries

Michael Lind

| Dec 01, 1993

To see realist strategies adopted even as they are denounced would be, in our view, no small success.

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